Extra Markdown Commands for Emacs

Posted by fiddlemath on February 11, 2012

I spend a lot of my time in emacs. But I’ve only recently really started to fiddle with things in emacs lisp. Here’s some twiddling.

I really like Markdown. I write practically everything in Markdown; it’s a wonderful way to just barely organize what should be mostly plain text. I even like the way that plaintext files look in Markdown. Writing in Markdown is like swinging a well-balanced hammer; it’s easy enough to use that it just seems obvious, rather than designed. (This site is just a thin wrapper around a bunch of Markdown files, for instance…)

Anyway, I also rather like the emacs Markdown Mode, but its title and subsection headings don’t expand to underline the entire line of current text. This bothered me, so I did this: